Solid-state Type Patents (Class 313/498)
  • Patent number: 10033013
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit formed on the substrate and including a plurality of emission regions, an encapsulant formed on the display unit and including at least one organic layer and at least one inorganic layer; and a plurality of reflectors formed on the encapsulant and disposed to respectively overlap at least regions around the plurality of emission regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongwoo Moon, Sangho Park, Joonyoup Kim, Joungkeun Park
  • Patent number: 10026777
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a unit light-emitting area disposed on the substrate; first and second electrodes disposed in the unit light-emitting area to be separated from each other; a plurality of rod-shaped LEDs disposed between the first and second electrodes; a reflective contact electrode disposed on opposite ends of the rod-shaped LEDs to electrically connect the rod-shaped LEDs to the first and second electrodes; and a light-transmitting structure disposed between the first and second electrodes and extending to cross the rod-shaped LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Hyuk Kang, Hyun Min Cho, Dae Hyun Kim, Joo Yeol Lee, Hyun Deok Im
  • Patent number: 10026931
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a white organic light-emitting device (white OLED) including a first electrode, a hole transport layer, a white light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a second electrode which are sequentially formed on a substrate, the method including manufacturing a red ink by mixing a red light-emitting host and a red light-emitting dopant, manufacturing a green ink by mixing a green light-emitting host and a green light-emitting dopant, manufacturing a blue ink by mixing a blue light-emitting host and a blue light-emitting dopant, and forming a white light-emitting layer as a monolayer on the hole transport layer by separately electrospraying the red ink, the green ink, and the blue ink on the hole transport layer, wherein the white light-emitting layer includes a plurality of red light-emitting domains, a plurality of green light-emitting domains, and a plurality of blue light-emitting domains on the hole transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyazaki, Yasushi Koishikawa
  • Patent number: 10026755
    Abstract: An array substrate and a display device, which relates to the field of display technology. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines crossly arranged above the base substrate; the first signal line comprises a first line terminal and a second line terminal, as well as a conducting layer opposite to the second signal line for connecting the first line terminal and the second line terminal, and an insulating layer is arranged between the conducting layer and the second signal line, a plurality of first anti-static structures are arranged at joints of the first line terminal, the second line terminal and the conducting layer respectively. The array substrate and the display device provided by the present invention can reduce interference between the plurality of crossed signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbo Li, Pan Li, Hongfei Cheng
  • Patent number: 10014352
    Abstract: A display device includes a back board, a substrate, a display layer, and a cover lens. The back board includes a first portion, a second portion, and a bendable portion. The bendable portion is between the first portion and the second portion and separating the first portion from the second portion, and a rigidity of the bendable portion is smaller than a rigidity of the first portion and the second portion. The substrate is disposed on the first portion, the second portion, and the bendable portion, and the substrate is attached to the back board by an adhesive. The display layer is disposed on the substrate. The cover lens is disposed on the display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: HANNSTOUCH SOLUTION INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ching-Feng Tsai, Shi-Wei Ma
  • Patent number: 10008694
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a display region configured to display pixels; a frame region configured to surround the display region; a substrate; an organic electroluminescent element disposed on the substrate; a sealing member configured to cover the organic electroluminescent element; a lead wire disposed on the substrate and extending from a region covered with the sealing member to an outer side of the sealing member; and one or more organic insulators disposed within the frame region instead of within the display region. The lead wire includes two opposite side portions. The one organic insulator or each organic insulator covers part of at least one of the two side portions. The sealing member covers the one or more organic insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10008640
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes at least one first light source and at least one second light source. The at least one first light source and at least one second light source may be configured to emit white light and cyan light, respectively, such that a ratio of luminous flux of the white light to luminous flux of the cyan light ranges from 19:1 to 370:1, based on a common magnitude of electrical current being applied to each of the at least one first light source and the at least one second light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Hye Yeon, Han Kyu Seong, Yong Il Kim, Jung Sub Kim
  • Patent number: 10004124
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device having a display panel including pixels, a pixel circuit of each of the pixels comprising a capacitor connected between a first and second node, a driving transistor connected to the second node, a third node, and a first supply voltage, a first transistor supplying the first supply voltage or a reference voltage to the first node, a second transistor supplying the reference voltage to the second node, a third transistor supplying a data voltage to the first node, a fourth transistor forming a current path between the second and third nodes, a fifth transistor supplying the reference voltage or a reset voltage to the fourth node, a sixth transistor supplying the reference voltage to the first node, a seventh transistor forming a current path between the third and fourth nodes, and a diode connected to the fourth node and a second supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Ko, Juhnsuk Yoo, Sungwook Yoon, Sungwook Chang
  • Patent number: 9991458
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a nanoshell is disclosed. The method comprises coating a nanometric core made of a first material by a second material, to form a core-shell nanostructure and applying non-chemical treatment to the core-shell nanostructure so as to at least partially remove the nanometric core, thereby fabricating a nanoshell. The disclosed nanoshell can be used in the fabrication of transistors, optical devices (such as CCD and CMOS sensors), memory devices and energy storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd., Tower Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Rosenman, Simon Litsyn, Yakov Roizin
  • Patent number: 9991318
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a substrate, reflection structure, and a sub-pixel structure. The substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions and a reflection region surrounding the sub-pixel regions. The reflection structure is disposed on the substrate in the reflection region and has a plurality of openings exposing the sub-pixel regions. The reflection structure includes first reflection patterns, second reflection patterns, and connection patterns. The first reflection patterns extend in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second reflection patterns are spaced apart from each other in the first direction between two adjacent first reflection patterns. The connection patterns electrically connect two adjacent second reflection patterns in the second direction. The sub-pixel structure is disposed on the substrate in the sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mu-Gyeom Kim, Min-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9989815
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an insulating substrate, a data line disposed on the insulating substrate and extended in a first direction, a plurality of pixel electrodes which is disposed on the insulating substrate and in which a slit pattern is defined, a common electrode facing the pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, where each of the pixel electrodes includes an edge electrode portion and a plurality of branch electrode portions protruding in a direction toward a central portion of the pixel electrode from the edge electrode portion, and at least a portion of the edge electrode portion overlaps the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Gyun Kim, Heung Shik Park, Kyung Min Kim, Hoon Kim, Ki Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 9991473
    Abstract: An organic light display device includes a first substrate, light emitting structures, a second substrate and a reflective member. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region including a plurality of sub-pixel regions, and a reflective region which surrounds the sub-pixel regions. The reflective region excludes the sub-pixel regions. The light emitting structures are respectively disposed in the sub-pixel regions on the first substrate. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The reflective member is disposed in the reflective region on the lower surface of the second substrate. First openings exposing the sub-pixel regions and a second opening exposing at least a portion the reflective region are located in the reflective member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Koo Chung, Jun-Ho Choi, Kyung-Ho Kim, Eun-Kyoung Nam, Jeong-Woo Moon
  • Patent number: 9986614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controller (30) for controlling the light-output of two light-emitting devices (10, 20). The two light-emitting devices are adapted to provide a McCandless effect on an illuminated object (40). The controller (30) comprises a first user interface for a user to set a first color (11) to be output by a first light-emitting device (10) and second user interface for a user to set a desired mixed color (81) of a common area (80) being illuminated by both light-emitting devices (10, 20). The controller (30) further comprises a processing circuitry for determining first lighting parameters resulting in said first color (11) when provided to the first light-emitting device (10), and for determining second lighting parameters resulting in a second color (21) when provided to a second light-emitting device (20). A mix of the first color (11) and the second color (21) provides the mixed color (81).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Marcus Verbrugh, Ralph Kurt
  • Patent number: 9978815
    Abstract: A self-light emitting display unit capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. Sizes of color pixel circuits corresponding to pixels for R, G, and B are respectively set unevenly within a pixel circuit according to a magnitude ratio of drive currents which allow color self-light emitting elements in the pixel to emit with a same light emission luminance. Thereby, the pattern densities of color pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the pixels for R, G, and B become even to each other, and the pattern defect rate as the whole pixel circuit is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 9978674
    Abstract: Provided are a chip-on-film (COF) semiconductor package capable of improving connection characteristics and a display apparatus including the package. The COF semiconductor package includes a film substrate, a conductive interconnection located on at least one surface of the film substrate and an output pin connected to the conductive interconnection and located at one edge on a first surface of the film substrate, a semiconductor chip connected to the conductive interconnection and mounted on the first surface of the film substrate, a solder resist layer on the first surface of the film substrate to cover at least a portion of the conductive interconnection, and at least one barrier dam on the solder resist layer between the semiconductor chip and the output pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-woo Kim, Jae-min Jung, Ji-yong Park, Jeong-kyu Ha, Woon-bae Kim
  • Patent number: 9978965
    Abstract: A rollable display includes a frontplane having multiple OLED pixels and a backplane having a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate has a perimeter and a thin film transistor array operably connected to the OLED pixels. At least one rigid band of drivers is operably connected to the backplane and positioned along an edge of the substrate perimeter. The flexible substrate includes a material having a glass transition temperature of less than 200 degrees Celsius. A method of fabricating a rollable display is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Ruiqing Ma
  • Patent number: 9964797
    Abstract: The invention provides a manufacturing method for color film substrate and LCD apparatus. The method utilizes the quantum dot (QD) material to form a color film layer having a red, green, cyan and blue filter layer on the bottom substrate to realize four-color display scheme, improve QD utilization and improve display color domain; the LCD apparatus comprises a color film layer and a blue backlight module, the color film layer comprises red, green, cyan and blue filter layer, the red filter layer comprises a red filter film and a red QD film on the red filter film; the green filter layer comprises a green filter film and a green QD film on the green filter film; the cyan filter layer comprises a green QD film; by using QD material to mix blue backlight and color film layer to realize four-color scheme, improve QD utilization and improve display color domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ji Li
  • Patent number: 9947717
    Abstract: A light-emitting device operating on a high drive voltage and a small drive current. LEDs (1) are two-dimensionally formed on an insulating substrate (10) of e.g., sapphire monolithically and connected in series to form an LED array. Two such LED arrays are connected to electrodes (32) in inverse parallel. Air-bridge wiring (28) is formed between the LEDs (1) and between the LEDs (1) and electrodes (32). The LED arrays are arranged zigzag to form a plurality of LEDs (1) to produce a high drive voltage and a small drive current. Two LED arrays are connected in inverse parallel, and therefore an AC power supply can be used as the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiro Sakai, Jin-Ping Ao, Yasuo Ono
  • Patent number: 9942962
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided in which a dedicated area of the device substrate is patterned to form a resistive track so that it can be contacted by a readout arrangement. The resistive track is used to encode information. The information is provided to a driver which can then derive information about the type of device being driven. The driver can thus be controlled accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: OLEDWORKS GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Rickers
  • Patent number: 9935294
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a fabricating method thereof, and a display device, which belong to the field of display technology. The display substrate comprises: a base substrate, and a first light emitting unit disposed on the base substrate, the first light emitting unit comprising: a first selective reflection transmission layer, an anode layer, a first organic light emitting layer, a cathode layer and a reflective layer, superposed sequentially, wherein the first selective reflection transmission layer and the reflective layer are capable of reflecting color light emitted from the first organic light emitting layer, so that the color light oscillates between the first selective reflection transmission layer and the reflective layer, and exits the base substrate via the first selective reflection transmission layer. The embodiments described herein can improve the light outgoing efficiency of the display substrate and the display device made of the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuting Yang, Chun Ye, Kun Li, Shancai Zhang
  • Patent number: 9929324
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting device including a light emitting element, a covering member for covering a side surface of the light emitting element, and a light-transmissive member disposed on upper surfaces in a light emitting direction of the light emitting element and the covering member and having an end face on substantially the same plane as an end face of the covering member, wherein the covering member has a recess portion or a convex portion on the upper surface, a light emitting surface of the light emitting element and an upper surface other than the recess portion or the convex portion of the covering member are arranged on substantially the same plane, and the light-transmissive member is provided in contact with the recess portion or the convex portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohide Miki
  • Patent number: 9919384
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a package having a recess, a light emitting element disposed in the recess, a light-transmissive member covering an opening of the recess, and a frame member bonded to the package. The light-transmissive member is held by and between the package and the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Igata, Hirofumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9917236
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element; and a light reflective member having a multilayer structure and covering the side faces of the semiconductor light emitting element. The light reflective member includes: a first layer disposed on an inner, semiconductor light emitting element side, the first layer comprising a light-transmissive resin containing a light reflective substance, and a second layer disposed in contact with an outer side of the first layer, the second layer comprising a light-transmissive resin containing the light reflective substance at a lower content than that of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Beppu, Yoichi Bando, Hiroto Tamaki, Takuya Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9911796
    Abstract: A display device, which includes a plurality of unit pixels, includes a plurality of first electrodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of unit pixels, an insulating layer which includes a plurality of through holes, a light emitting element layer, and a second electrode. Each of the plurality of through holes have inner surfaces including a forwardly tapered surface, which is inclined in a direction of enlarging the apertures toward a light emitting direction, and a reversely tapered surface, which is inclined in a direction of reducing the apertures toward the light emitting direction. The forwardly tapered surface is formed between the unit pixels arranged side by side in the first direction. The reversely tapered surface is formed between the unit pixels arranged side by side in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yukio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9899576
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having electrodes on a lower surface side thereof; a phosphor layer covering a surface of the light emitting element; a transparent covering member disposed on at least one side surface of the light emitting device; and a reflection member that covers the covering member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Beppu, Takuya Noichi
  • Patent number: 9893250
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes at least one light emitting element including a plurality of semiconductor layers; and a light transmissive sealing member covering the at least one light emitting element. The light transmissive sealing member comprises a light transmissive sealing resin containing a silicone resin having a siloxane bond scaffold having methyl and phenyl groups as a principal ingredient. The light transmissive sealing resin has a refractive index in a range between 1.45 and 1.52, a durometer type D hardness at 25° C. specified by JIS K 6253 in a range between 20 and 70, and a DMA tan ?-based glass transition temperature (Tg) in a range between 20° C. and 70° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ichikawa, Tomoki Tanisada, Yasunori Shimizu, Masafumi Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 9876150
    Abstract: A method is provided for making optical semiconductor devices collectively. LED chips are arranged on a material substrate, and the substrate is sandwiched by a common mold and a first cooperating mold formed with a cavity. A light-transmitting resin is injected into the cavity and solidified to form a light-transmitting resin member including body portions for sealing the LED chips and connecting portions each connecting adjacent body portions. Then, the substrate is sandwiched by the common mold and a second cooperating mold formed with another cavity. A light-shielding resin is injected into the cavity and solidified to form a light-shielding resin member filling the gaps between the body portions. The body portions are separated from each other by making cuts in the material substrate and the light-shielding resin member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiko Kobayakawa
  • Patent number: 9876059
    Abstract: A highly reliable display device. A first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate overlap each other with a display element positioned therebetween. Side surfaces of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate which overlap each other are covered with a high molecular material having a light-transmitting property. The high molecular material is more flexible than the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yanagisawa, Takuya Kawata
  • Patent number: 9842764
    Abstract: A display device including a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices on a wiring substrate; a connection part on the wiring substrate and configured to electrically-connect the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices to the wiring substrate. Further, each of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices includes a first conductive semiconductor layer; a second conductive semiconductor layer overlapped with the first conductive semiconductor layer; a first conductive electrode on the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second conductive electrode on the second conductive semiconductor layer. In addition, the connection part includes a first conductive layer formed of a same material as the first conductive electrode and a second conductive layer formed of a same material as the second conductive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Kyuhyun Bang
  • Patent number: 9837573
    Abstract: The method comprises the steps of providing a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor layer (1) with at least one radiation sensor (6) and a dielectric layer (2), arranging a web (3) comprising a plurality of recesses (4) on the dielectric layer, and introducing ink of different colors (A, B, C) in the recesses by inkjets (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventor: Rainer Minixhofer
  • Patent number: 9831461
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display substrate, which includes an anode layer, a cathode layer and a luminous layer that is provided between the anode layer and the cathode layer, the anode layer including a plurality of anodes and the luminous layer including a plurality of luminous regions, wherein the display substrate further includes at least one assisting electrode, the assisting electrode being insulated and spaced from the anode, and the assisting electrode contacting with the cathode layer in parallel, such that a total resistance of the assisting electrode and the cathode layer connected in parallel is smaller than a resistance of the cathode layer alone. The IR drop in the cathode of the display substrate provided by the present invention is relatively small, such that loss of electric signals is relatively small in the cathode layer and the assisting electrode, thereby obtaining a relatively higher image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Suk Song, Seong Yeol Yoo, Seung Jin Choi, Hee Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 9831297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an AMOLED array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The AMOLED array substrate includes at least one first auxiliary line provided in the same layer as but not intersecting with pixel electrodes; and at least one second auxiliary line provided in the same layer as source and drain electrodes but not intersecting with data lines and the source and drain electrodes, wherein: projections of the first and second auxiliary lines on plate electrode are within projection of pixel define layer and at least partially overlap; and the first auxiliary line is electrically connected to the second auxiliary line via a first via hole and to the plate electrode via a second via hole formed in pixel define layer, wherein projection of the first via hole on the plate electrode is within overlapped projection of the first and second auxiliary lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun Cao
  • Patent number: 9825589
    Abstract: Various emitters and emitter systems are disclosed. For instance, in various embodiments, an emitter can comprise a substrate, an insulator bonded to the substrate, a graphene layer bonded to the insulator, and a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact. The first electrical contact can be bonded over a first portion of the graphene layer, and the second electrical contact can be bonded over a second portion of the graphene layer. The graphene layer electrically couples the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact and is configured to receive the application of a pulsed input voltage between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact and to radiate radio frequency (RF) energy. An emitter system can comprise a plurality of emitters, each disposed on a single integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jordan Rudolph Pagayanan Planillo, Michael A. Torres, Christopher A. Foster
  • Patent number: 9825252
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a lower substrate having a display area and a peripheral area around the display area; an upper substrate facing the lower substrate; a display unit at the display area of the lower substrate; a sealing member at the peripheral area of the lower substrate and configured to bond the lower substrate to the upper substrate; and a first metal layer between the lower substrate and the sealing member and having a plurality of first through portions extending in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joonyung Jang
  • Patent number: 9818967
    Abstract: Optical components and devices are provided that include a substrate, a microlens array, and a barrier film system conformally covering the microlens array. An OLED may be optically coupled to the microlens array. The barrier film may provide protection to the microlens array or other components, without having a significant negative impact on outcoupling of light from the coupled OLED by the microlens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Ruiqing Ma, Julia J. Brown, Michael Hack, Siddharth Harikrishna Mohan, Gregory McGraw
  • Patent number: 9807843
    Abstract: An LED lighting apparatus may comprise a white light emitting module including a first white LED package emitting first white light corresponding to a quadrangular region defined by (0.3100, 0.3203), (0.3082, 0.3301), (0.3168, 0.3388) and (0.3179, 0.3282) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, a second white LED package emitting second white light corresponding to a quadrangular region defined by (0.4475, 0.3994), (0.4571, 0.4173), (0.4695, 0.4207) and (0.4589, 0.4021) in the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, a green LED package emitting green light having a peak wavelength of 520 nm to 545 nm, and a driving controller controlling levels of luminous flux of the first white light and the second white light to select a color temperature of desired white light and controlling a luminous flux of the green LED package so as to reduce a difference between color coordinates corresponding to the selected color temperature of the white light, and a black body locus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Won Hoe Koo
  • Patent number: 9806262
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting device, the method including forming a lower electrode on a lower substrate, forming an organic layer on the lower electrode, forming a light extraction layer including an adhesion layer and nanoparticles on an upper substrate, forming an upper electrode on the light extraction layer, and coupling the lower substrate to the upper substrate so that the upper electrode contacts the organic layer. The forming of the light extraction layer includes providing an adhesive between a first sacrificial substrate and the upper substrate, curing the adhesive to form the adhesion layer to form the adhesion layer, and removing the first sacrificial substrate to expose the adhesion layer. The first sacrificial substrate and the upper substrate are coupled to each other by the adhesion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Byoung-Hwa Kwon, Jeong lk Lee, Hyunkoo Lee, Jong Tae Lim, Byoung Gon Yu, Jonghee Lee, Doo-Hee Cho, Hyunsu Cho
  • Patent number: 9794996
    Abstract: A lighting device may include a light source, a control circuit, and a communication device positioned in communication with the control circuit. The communication device may be configured to receive a transmission from a user device, and the transmission may include a data structure. The data structure may include a show packet and an event packet. The show packet may include an ID string and information regarding a number of event packets associated with the data structure, and the event packet may include information regarding a lighting spectrum, a fade type, a fade duration, and a hold duration. The control circuit may be configured to operate the light source to emit light transitioning from a present light emission having a present spectral power distribution to a light emission having spectral power distribution indicated by the lighting spectrum according to the fade type and fade duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Lighting Science Group Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Soler, Fredric S. Maxik, David E. Bartine, Mark Andrew Oostdyk, Matthew Regan
  • Patent number: 9786697
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate and a display device using the same are disclosed. The TFT substrate includes a first TFT including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode deposited on a substrate, a second TFT separated from the first TFT, the second TFT including a second gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode deposited on the first gate electrode, and a plurality of storage capacitors separated from the first and second TFTs, each storage capacitor including a first dummy semiconductor layer, a first gate insulating layer on the first dummy semiconductor layer, a first dummy gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer, and an intermediate insulating layer on the first dummy gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sohyung Lee, Youngyoung Chang, Kwonshik Park, Mincheol Kim, Jeongsuk Yang
  • Patent number: 9786868
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an electronic structure, including at least one organic layer, at least one metal growth layer grown onto the organic layer, and at least one metal layer grown on the metal growth layer. The at least one metal growth layer contains germanium. Various embodiments further relate to a method for producing the electronic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Osram OLED GmBH
    Inventors: Erwin Lang, Philipp Schwamb, David Hartmann, Guenter Schmid, Florian Eder, Sabine Szyszkowski, Wiebke Sarfert
  • Patent number: 9780153
    Abstract: The present application discloses an organic light emitting diode array substrate comprising a base substrate; a first electrode; a second electrode; and a pixel definition layer. The pixel definition layer comprises a first insulating layer comprising a plurality of first insulating units; a second insulating layer comprising a plurality of second insulating units; and a conductive layer comprising a plurality of interconnected conductive units sandwiched by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Gao
  • Patent number: 9780649
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a converter of the multiphase interleaving type. According to the method, there is detected when a change of the load applied to an output terminal of the converter occurs. All the phases of the converter are simultaneously turned off, and a driving interleaving phase shift is recovered so as to restart a normal operation of the converter. A controller for carrying out such a method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Zafarana, Osvaldo Enrico Zambetti
  • Patent number: 9768416
    Abstract: An OLED display device including a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, an organic light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer, and an organic dot disposed on the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinbaek Choi, Younggil Kwon, Yeonhwa Lee, Joongu Lee
  • Patent number: 9752734
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a board, light emitting element chips, a wavelength conversion member, a transparent bulb, support leads, and a support base. The board has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface is an opposite side to the first surface. The light emitting element chips are mounted on the first surface side. The wavelength conversion member is formed unitarily with a transparent member. The transparent bulb encloses the board and the light emitting element chips. The support leads secure the light emitting element chips inside the transparent bulb. The support base can be threadedly engaged with a conventional light bulb socket along a socket axis. The wavelength conversion member is provided on a first surface side and a second surface side, and is elongated in a longitudinal direction. The light emitting element chips is aligned along a line that extends in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanda, Toshio Matsushita
  • Patent number: 9741782
    Abstract: An AMOLED comprises a plurality of pixel structures arranged in a matrix and one layer of power supply signal electrode configured to provide a power supply voltage signal for the pixel structures, and the power supply signal electrode has a planar structure. The planar power supply signal electrode can greatly reduce its resistance and hence can reduce the IR drop of power supply voltage signals that are transmitted over the power supply signal electrode, effectively reduce the impact of the IR drop on the display effect, and remarkably reduce the power consumption of a panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanjie Ma, Lujiang Huangfu
  • Patent number: 9740036
    Abstract: A display device includes: display and peripheral regions, the peripheral region including: a first wire on a first insulating layer; a passivation layer on the first insulating layer, exposing a portion of the first wire; a light blocking member on the passivation layer, a first hole therein exposing the portion of the first wire; a second insulating layer on the light blocking member, a second hole therein exposing the portion of the first wire; a third insulating layer on the second insulating layer, covering sides of the light blocking member and the second insulating layer at the first and second holes; and a second wire on the third insulating layer, in contact with the first wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Jin Kim, You Young Jin
  • Patent number: 9743466
    Abstract: An LED replacement lamp (20) is described. An LED lighting assembly (40) comprising LED lighting elements is electrically connected to filament emulation circuits, connected to electrical contacts at each of two opposite ends (22a, 22b) of an elongated member. The filament emulation circuits (42) each comprise a first resistor circuit (46) and a second resistor circuit (48) connected to first and second electrical contacts (26a, 24a). The first and second resistor circuits (46, 48) are connected to the LED lighting assembly (40) at a common terminal (50). In order to provide an LED replacement lamp for safe operation even in cases of component failure, and if the replacement lamp (20) is used in incorrect wiring configurations, the first and second resistor circuits (46, 48) each comprise a series connection of at least two resistors, in such a way that in case of failure of one of the resistors, the total resistance of the filament emulation circuits (42) remains above a determined resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Haimin Tao, Bernhard Christiaan Van Dijk, Borong Su
  • Patent number: 9721497
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including: a first sub-pixel configured to emit light of a first color; a second sub-pixel configured to emit light of a second color that is different from the first color; a third sub-pixel configured to emit light of a third color that is different from the first and second colors; and a transmission sub-pixel configured to selectively transmit external light in response to an electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Sung Jung, Jae-Won Choi, Tae-Hyeog Jung
  • Patent number: 9711759
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The OLED display has a plurality of pixel regions and comprises a substrate, a first electrode layer formed on the substrate, a second electrode layer formed on the first electrode layer, a pixel defining layer, and a light absorption composite layer. The pixel regions are separated by the pixel defining layer. The light absorption composite layer is formed on the substrate, and absorbs a light with wavelength of 380˜780 nm. The light absorption composite layer comprises a first light absorption layer and a second light absorption layer stacked together. The first light absorption layer absorbs a light with shorter wavelength. The second light absorption layer absorbs a light with longer wavelength different from that of the light absorbed by the first light absorption layer in the region of 380˜780 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Kai Li, Hsin-Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 9710090
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel integrated organic light emitting display apparatus. The apparatus includes a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, an organic light emitting unit including an anode, an organic emission layer and a cathode, an anode contact unit connected to the thin film transistor and extending from the anode, an encapsulation unit configured to cover the organic light emitting unit, a low-reflective adhesive member disposed on the encapsulation unit, the low-reflective adhesive member comprising an adhesive layer and a low-reflective pattern disposed on a lower surface of the adhesive layer, and a touch panel disposed on the low-reflective adhesive member, wherein the low-reflective pattern has a visible light absorption property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: BongKi Choi